Doctoral abstracts

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies]
Dear all
Sigir Forum (http://www.acm.org/sigir/forum/) is the tri-annual
publication of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
and is aimed at dissemination of best practice in Information Retrieval
and related areas.
One of the Forum's regular features are abstracts of recently published
PhD dissertations. PhD abstracts are invaluable in informing the IR
community on recent research and promoting new researchers.
If you have recently completed your doctoral studies, please consider
submitting an abstract to the Forum. Typically this would be one to two
pages in length, describing the main outcomes and contributions of your
research. Recent examples of dissertation abstracts can be found at the
Forum homepage.
Best wishes
Ian
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Ian Ruthven
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow G1 1XH
Email: Ian.Ruthven@...
Tel: +44 141 548 3098

ECIR'04 Call for Participation for Posters

ECIR'04 EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
5th - 7th April, 2004, UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND, UK
http://ecir04.sunderland.ac.uk
CALL FOR POSTERS
The British Computer Society's Information Retrieval Specialist Group's annual
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'04) is the main European forum
for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:
Text representation and indexing
Cross-lingual and multilingual IR
Metasearching and data fusion
Data mining and information extraction
Topic detection and tracking
Text summarisation
Question answering
Web-based IR
Information Retrieval for digital libraries
Mobile IR
Formal methods and language models for IR
Natural Language Processing for IR
Structured document retrieval, including XML
Image and video retrieval
Text classification (categorization or clustering)
Content-based adaptive filtering and routing
Usability, interactivity and visualization
Search strategies

ECIR '04 Call for Posters

ECIR '04 EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
5th - 7th April, 2004
UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND, UK
http://ecir04.sunderland.ac.uk
CALL FOR POSTERS
The British Computer Society's Information Retrieval Specialist Group's annual
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'04) is the main European forum
for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:
Text representation and indexing
Cross-lingual and multilingual IR
Metasearching and data fusion
Data mining and information extraction
Topic detection and tracking
Text summarisation
Question answering
Web-based IR
Information Retrieval for digital libraries
Mobile IR
Formal methods and language models for IR
Natural Language Processing for IR
Structured document retrieval, including XML

Re: John Campbell Trust 2003 (1) awards

(Apologies for cross-posting)
JOHN CAMPBELL TRUST 2004 AWARDS (first call)
Dissertation and Conference/Travel bursaries
For their first call of 2004, the Trustees are offering Awards
in the following category:
* Conference/Travel Bursaries: This Award is intended to help
a member of the information profession to attend a conference of
his/her choice, and/or to undertake a programme of visits. The
Award is open to a resident of the UK or Eire for travel outside
the British Isles.
* Dissertation Bursaries: This Award is intended to help a
student of information/library studies in the UK or Eire, who has
to prepare a project or dissertation as part of his/her course of
study, to pursue a topic which would necessarily require a
programme of visits for the collection of information or data.
The maximum value for an individual award is 1000 pounds. The
Trustees may make awards to a maximum total of 4000 pounds.
The closing date for these competitive Awards is 30 January 2004.
Full details of the awards and an application form may be obtained
from the CILIP website or from the Chair of Trustees (contact details
below).
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The John Campbell Trust was established as an independent charitable